Highlights: Elder Mecham and Elder Blue made it to LAX and back with no significant problems :) Meanwhile, back at the office, Sister Blue and I were preparing for Zone Leaders’ Council (or is it Counsel) [ZLC]. Actually, most of that preparation was done Friday and Monday, as we filled orders for each zone – given to us by the Zone Leaders. Oh, the gospel materials that are distributed! Amazing! Numerous cases of Books of Mormon (or is it Book of Mormons?), various other standard works, pamphlets, pictures, pass-along cards, just boxes of all kinds of "goodies" - we line the hallway with these boxes, along with recent packages which came in the mail and other miscellaneous stuff (such as fans, vacuums, garbage cans) which the ZLs pick up on ZLC day (that was yesterday, and now our hallway is naked :) It was so fun to meet some of these superb missionaries, that heretofore I had either only spoken to on the phone or merely seen their names as mail came through the office for them or on lists of the zones. Great elders!
Then last night I taught my third keyboarding class. Have I previously mentioned that this is just a bit frustrating? I have only five students, but have yet to have them all attend a class. Last night I came to the conclusion that the 10 year old, at this point, really should NOT be taking this course. She is way behind the others, and she just doesn’t seem to get it at all. One of the ladies is also quite far behind, but she is learning – just so busy she doesn’t get her practicing in. The other three are doing good, but the ones that are behind are holding them back. Not sure what to do at this point. Sister Hulme, one of the sister missionaries, comes and assists. She taught piano lessons prior to her mission. I honestly don’t know what I’d do without her! But I’m sure I’ll find out, because I’m guessing she will be transferred before long :( Of course, I came in to the middle of this course, which was begun by Sister Curtis. I agreed to finish teaching the course, but had no idea how tricky it was going to be. Yikes!
Saturday we attended a Tri-Ward Luau, which was a very amazing event, the purpose of which was to raise funds for Girls’ Camp. The dinner was lovely, and the auction was amazing! They had over 70 desserts to auction - most were done as a silent auction, but not all. Elder Mecham has agreed to let me put some of his journal into the blog, so I will let him explain more about this! I DO have a couple of pictures to put in, though. We had some great hula entertainment as well :)
(Lame, but it proves we were there :)
Elder Mecham:
The area we live in, Port Hueneme, has been referred to as Little Mexico. There are a lot of Hispanics in the area and this Saturday was May 5th, or Cinco de Mayo which is always a big event in the Mexican culture. At our church building they had a big three ward gathering and since it was Cinco de Mayo of course we had a Hawaiian luau. Go figure. But it was interesting. They held an auction to raise funds for girls’ camp. You know, the kind where you bring something and then bid on it and pay a high price to take it back home. Well, this thing was insane. People were bidding against each other and paying ridiculous prices for almost everything. For example, and this really takes the cake, (yes it was intended) Bishop Sweet started bidding on the last cake, and it was a mighty fine cake. The bidding went up, and back and forth and he finally got it for $135.00! There’s no use going back and checking the location of the decimal point. I got it right. Like I said, it was a fantastic cake – round, about ten inches across and maybe six or seven inches high. Beautiful! But there ain’t no cake worth $135.00. I think I’d choke on it if I tried eating it.
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